About Chris

Chris is an executive coach, facilitator and high-performance consultant who works with executives, leaders and teams to improve personal excellence, team effectiveness and organisational mastery. Chris has over 25 years experience in coaching, facilitation, lecturing and leadership across a wide variety of industries and sectors, including public sector, higher education, ASX100 organisations, elite sport, mining, not-for-profit, and banking and finance. He has been coaching and consulting to the tertiary education sector for over fifteen years, including organisations such as the UQ, QUT, Griffith University, UniSQ, UniSC, ANU and TAFE Queensland, as well as organisations such as Rowing Australia, Swimming Australia, the ABC and Queensland Public Sector departments. Chris is also an executive coach for the QUT Business School, an Associate with IECL, and an associate with Blanchard International, providing executive coaching to clients all over the world.

Skills

• Executive coaching and team coaching
• Leadership consulting and design
• Team and group facilitation

Expertise / Topics. / SME

• Values-based leadership approaches
• Dealing with conflict and having difficult conversations
• Developing team-ness in executive teams
• Decision-making and delegation
• Influence and advocacy
• Embedding sport-based high-performance systems
• Managing diversity to create effective teams

Sectors and Industries / Sport

• Higher education: university and TAFE
• Health and wellbeing
• Government: State and Federal
• Infrastructure and Construction
• Banking and Finance
• Sport and Performance

Qualifications and certifications

• Masters in Business Leadership
 (Organisational Coaching & Leadership)
, Charles Sturt University
• Master Certified Coach (MCC), 
International Coach Federation
• Associate: Institute for Executive Coaching and Leadership
• Associate: Blanchard International and Blanchard Certified Coach
• Accredited Organisational Coach - Level 3
, Neuro-Leadership Institute, Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership
• Advanced PD Certificate: evidence-based Executive Coaching, 
Institute for Coaching and Consulting Psychology
• Graduate Diploma in Information Management, 
Queensland University of Technology
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, TAFE Queensland
• Advanced Diploma in Management (HR), 
TAFE Queensland
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours), 
University of Southern Queensland

Diagnostics

• The Leadership Circle Tool: Self-rater and 360
• Emotional Capital Report (ECR): Self-rater and 360
• ECR Teams: Emotional Intelligence Team 360
• ECR: Athlete Skills Inventory: Self-rater
• Team Management Systems: Team Management Profile, Risk Profile, Values Tool and Linking Skills 360
• Points of You: Facilitation tool